Children's Mental Health Week and Amazing Designs!

Date: 7th Feb 2025 @ 3:53pm

Hello!

This week has been Children's Mental Health week where we have explored the theme 'Know Yourself, Grow Yourself'. The children discussed how they can learn more about themselves and what makes them the person that they are. We discussed that all of us are different. We have our own qualities, talents, thoughts, opinions and personalities. This is what makes our world a wonderful and diverse place. By developing our self-awareness, we can identify and understand how we feel in different situations. This can help to build resilience and confidence. We took part in 'Place2Be's' Inside Out themed activities, creating memory boxes where the children had an opportunity to write their memories and store them inside. We then watched the 'Inside Out' film during Golden Time and discussed the different feelings and thoughts that we have. 

Artists in the making!

In preperation for our recount writing next week, we made Chinese New Year dragon hats in design and technology this week. This is also linking to our learning of Wuhan in China and the different celebrations they have compared to Manchester. The children used oragami style techniques to make their dragon face templates and then designed these using lots of different materials. They even practiced their sewing skills and used a needle and thread to make their dragons nose! 

Home Reading

Myself and Miss Imran have been really impressed by all of the children who have been reading at home and having their reading records signed. 'Oscar the Reading Owl' has been to lots of houses over the past couple of weeks and we have seen such an improvement in a lot of the children's reading in school. 

We do ask that you spend time to listen to your child read every night and log this in their home reading record. 

Have a lovely weekend :) 

Miss Hindle